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| GProgrammer said: According to Vgchartz Wii Sports has sold 82.65 million, Now since nearly all of these sales were because it was a pack-in title, the same must apply to the ps5 pack-in title Astro's Playground. So will it outsell Wii Sports? I say probably it has a 50 / 50 chance. As the PS5 may bomb or they stop including it later on |
You're kind of wrong off the bat, unless you have a really broad definition of "nearly all".
The title was never bundled in Japan, so that's around 4 million that were definitely not sold in bundles.
More significantly, Mario Kart Wii and New Super Mario were more heavily bundled in the Wii's later years. In 2012 and 13, I'm pretty sure the Sports bundles were done. The game still sold another 3 and a half million.
2011, the main Wii Bundles were MKWii and NSMBWii, at least during black Friday. I'm fairly sure Wii Sports wasn't really bundled much of the rest of the year either. Wii Sports still sold 5 million that year.
Even in 2014, when the Wii itself was not selling and Wii Fit was not bundled, it still sold 500,000. Which is kind of crazy for a seven year old game.
So, a significant chunk of Wii's sales were not bundled. Conservatively, it seems safe to say at least ten million. Based on the continued sales, it seems safe to say that the game would have sold at least 25 million with no bundling, and this is again a conservative estimate.
So it's kind of a pointless comparison. If someone gets some sort of happiness out of more copies of Astro's Playroom existing in some form (assuming they bundle it for the PS5's lifespan), then good for them I guess. But there's no doubt that Wii Sports will be the more successful and influential title.
